When Enoch Bryant Lester was born on 7 October 1897, in Dallas, Texas, United States, his father, David Henry Lester, was 28 and his mother, Nancy Lynn Brownlee, was 21. He had at least 3 daughters with Nora Lois Witherspoon. He lived in Fort Worth, Tarrant, Texas, United States in 1920 and Justice Precinct 3, Denton, Texas, United States in 1940. He died on 25 February 1967, in Dallas, Dallas, Texas, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Dallas, Dallas, Texas, United States.
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After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
"Spindletop, located south of Beaumont, becomes the first major oil well to be discovered in Texas. Other fields were discovered in shortly after, which ultimately led to the highly impactful ""oil boom""."
Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.
English: habitational name from Leicester, which is recorded as Ligeraceastre in the 10th century. The placename derives from an Old English folk name Legore ‘the dwellers by the river Legor (a lost river name)’ + Old English ceaster ‘city, Roman fortification’.
English (of Norman origin): habitational name from Lestre in Normandy.
English and Scottish: variant of Lister .
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